Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
We had our first frost on October 18th, which is the beginning of St Luke's Little Summer, the traditional name for a warm string of days that usually fall around the Feast of St Luke (October 18th). This always has me asking: Do we get a St Luke's Little Summer if we haven't had winter… Continue reading The Daily: 21 October 2024
The Hunter's Moon is full at 7:26am today. This is the last full moon of my calendar. In two weeks the annual lunar cycle begins anew with the Winter Sleep Moon. This is a time of reconciliation and reckoning. It is time to say goodbye to the growing season and to turn to the resting… Continue reading The Daily: 17 October 2024
It seems that I was unclear yesterday. Maybe it sounded like I was throwing in the towel on this writing project. Maybe it sounded like I don't believe in thinking, or that I am willing to act without thought. I don't think I said any of that... But then I wrote it and I read… Continue reading The Daily: 16 October 2024
Have you ever wondered why the titans of capitalism have not gone after mainstream environmentalists? Capitalists show no restraint when it comes to violently shutting down things that bother them — from escaped slaves to the Chipko women to the Chiapas conflict to the Water Protectors. So why are so many in the "liberal" media… Continue reading The Daily: 15 October 2024
It may snow this week... It's been raining and in the low 40s (°F) since yesterday afternoon. I haven't seen a frost at my house, but there's been ice on the metal mailbox in the morning. Some of my co-workers who live in the boondocks reported frost last week. And we're almost a month beyond… Continue reading The Daily: 14 October 2024
Yom Kippur begins at sundown today. This is the holiest of holy days in the Jewish calendar, the Day of Atonement, or more precisely, the Day of Cleansing. As this is traditionally thought to be the day when God writes down a person’s fate for the coming year in the book of life, it is… Continue reading The Daily: 11 October 2024
I didn't get around to writing today. There was no lunch hour. But then as I was eating dinner, I was listening to Suzanne Simard on The Great Simplification. And... well... she's just one of the most interesting people on the planet! So I decided to re-post my [glowing fan-girl] review of her book, Finding… Continue reading The Daily: 9 October 2024
There was not much progress on the orthodoxy vs orthopraxy piece over the weekend... There was not much writing at all, what with a decided lack of brain after Saturday. But I did get a couple comments and a bit of email* on yesterday's post which serve as a nice lead-in to the article that… Continue reading The Daily: 8 October 2024
Autumn rolled in last week. The mountains are not green, but a glorious pumpkin orange. The late apples are ripening. Several farms put the early glut of winter squash on sale already. My favorite place, Burtt's, is doing 3 pie pumpkins for $10 and 5 winter squash of any size and variety for $30. That's… Continue reading The Daily: 7 October 2024
October 4th is the feast day of St Francis of Assisi. You might know him as the irreverent but apt moniker, St Francis of the Birdbath, because that is where many of us encounter him. Bare-headed with the monk's tonsure, dressed in rough robes and coarse rope belting, he stands with one palm out, feeding… Continue reading The Daily: 4 October 2024
By My Solitary Hearth 